Police report shows player was with man suing him

More proof surfaced Saturday that Aaron Hernandez was close to the man currently suing him in federal court over a February shooting. A newspaper report indicated Hernandez was in a car with the man when he was arrested for drunken driving two weeks earlier.

According to records obtained by the Boston Globe, early in the morning of Jan. 28, 2013, Alexander Bradley fled a Massachusetts state trooper on Interstate 93 at speeds that reached 105 mph. The trooper saw Bradley's SUV and, when he approached it, the driver sped away, "swerving violently over the right two lanes and shaking the entire vehicle.

When the trooper caught up to the SUV and pulled it over, the report said, the front passenger yelled out, "Trooper, I'm Aaron Hernandez — it's OK."

Bradley failed roadside sobriety tests and told the trooper he had been drinking at a nightclub in the South End of Boston — the same club, coincidentally, at which Hernandez and others had gone on the night of the 2012 double-murder Boston police are now investigating for Hernandez's possible involvement.

Bradley was shot in the face and arm on Feb. 13 and left bleeding in an alley in Palm Beach County, Fla. In a civil lawsuit he has accused Hernandez of firing the weapon.

Bradley's lawyer, David Jaroslawicz, told USA Today on Friday that his client and Hernandez had known each other for several years, that Bradley had worked for him, and "thought they were friends."